by Mark Mason | Nov 24, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, I wrote about a service called 1WayLinks that promised to deliver hundreds of backlinks per month for a fee. At the time, I compared paid link building to article marketing and argued they were essentially the same thing. That article reflected the SEO...
by Mark Mason | Nov 7, 2008 | Internet Marketing
Back in 2008, I shared a free ebook about article marketing with my email subscribers. The concept was simple: write articles, submit them to directories, and drive traffic back to your website. Article marketing as a specific tactic has changed dramatically since...
by Mark Mason | Oct 21, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I wrote an enthusiastic multi-part review of a tool called Firepow. It was a web-based platform for creating and managing niche WordPress blogs — handling setup, content creation, and promotion all in one place. The tool no longer exists, and honestly,...
by Mark Mason | Oct 17, 2008 | free stuff
My original version of this post from 2008 was barely a hundred words. It pointed to a free PDF report about writing articles for article directories — a strategy that was all the rage at the time. The report is gone, the article directories are gone, but the...
by Mark Mason | Oct 15, 2008 | Internet Marketing
In 2008, I maintained a ranked list of over 400 article directories and was genuinely proud of it. The strategy was straightforward: write an article, submit it to hundreds of directories, and earn backlinks from the resource box at the bottom of each submission. I...
